Errors at the top of the hierarchy

Errors in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 199-224

  Shimizu, Katsuhiko ^a   Hitt, Michael A ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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